How to exasperate your children

Colossians 3:21 (ESV)
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

12 surefire ways to exasperate your children:

1. Be a hypocrite
2. Be a bully to them
3. Be harsh to them
4. Be Emotionally Distant from them
5. Show Favoritism to Other Kids
6. Have Unrealistic Standards
7. Be Mr Question your kid’s salvation guy
8. Be Mr Assure your kid’s salvation guy
9. Don’t discipline them
10. Discipline them without biblical instruction
11. Don’t teach them the Bible
12. Don’t connect discipline to the gospel

HT: Amy's Humble Musings & The Irish Calvanist